Project description
Addressing chip shortage in the European semiconductor industry
Semiconductors play a crucial role in numerous products, including refrigerators, cars, smartphones, and LED bulbs. However, recent adverse events have led to significant chip shortages. In response, the EU-funded SC4EU project aims to bolster European digital sovereignty by tackling the chip shortage issue. Specifically, it targets reducing the bullwhip effect in the semiconductor industry and related supply chains. The project intends to improve the accuracy of demand signals by utilising an anonymous Multi-Party Computation (MPC) survey to gather coarse granularity data. Subsequently, this survey data will be processed using Semantic Web via Digital Reference semantic model and AI tools to derive fine-grained insights. SC4EU aims to enhance semiconductor demand forecasting by obtaining high-quality, reliable data.
Objective
SC4EU, a collaborative Innovation Action aims at strengthening European digital sovereignty by mitigation of the chip shortage through reduction of bullwhip effect in the semiconductor industry and supply chains containing semiconductors. This will be reached via a “truer”-demand signal gained from an anonymous MPC (Multi-Party Computation) survey on coarse granularity which will be broken down via AI methods to fine granularities following the semantic web based digital reference structure.
The bullwhip effect has led to a range of negative outcomes, including excessive inventory, inventory write-offs, decreased revenue, workforce reduction, and ultimately, significant shortages, as observed in the last COVID years, during the financial crisis in 08/09 and during the .com crisis in the Zero Years.
The ambition of SC4EU consortium is to overcome these obstacles and to obtain high-quality, reliable data for semiconductor demand forecasting. In the solution proposed by SC4EU, data should be gathered via an anonymous survey based on Multi-Party Computing technology. Anonymity and security of data flow will encourage business partners to share their true demand data. Then, the gathered data will be mapped onto ontologies (semantic representations of the semiconductor industry) and processed with AI tools for demand breakdown of fine granularity.
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.4.2 - Key Digital Technologies
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HORIZON-JU-IA - HORIZON JU Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-3-CSA-IA
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85579 Neubiberg
Germany
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